Becoming a Better Teacher

“I could lay it out with CSS, or I could do it the easy way and use tables. Or I could just scrawl the site onto papyrus and hang it on the nearest tree.”

Dan Hall

stainless-design.co.uk

Major Educators

Prof Jack Miller

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abdul Baha

Prof Bernie Neville

Dr Reg Bolton

Professor Jean McNiff

Prof Nel Noddings

Prof. Tobin Hart

Dogen (Zen master)

Rachel Kessler

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‘Since 2001 I have taken a landscape photograph every day. I connect these photographs to important personal and world political events…. The starting point of this work was that world events, personal events and weather will repeat themselves and merge into one continuum……. On the other hand, linking landscape and news concretises how we are in contact with world events through the media. Everything is brought up close, which also means that events that are truly nearby are no longer close.’ Jari Silomaki, photographer (Finland) (SEE http://spiritofholisticeducation.org.uk/content/view/52/65/ )

In my 365 series sometimes it is world or personal events, sometimes it is the sense of
the eternal or transcendent or paradisical that registers.

To go to the 365 reflective moments series click as below:

December2006 slideshow

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SunWALK is a framework to help you articulate your model of (holistic) education & evaluate others.

My own work, using the SunWALK framework suggests

a spiritualizing (or humanizing) pedagogy of human education as:

the storied development of meaning, which is constructed, and de-constructed, physically mentally and spiritually, through

Wise & Willing Action, via Loving and Knowing – developed in Community, through

the ‘Dialectical Spiritualization’ of Caring, Creativity & Criticality processes, all undertaken in the light of the ‘Sun’ of chosen higher-order values and beliefs, using best available, appropriate content.

SEE http://www.sunwalk.org.uk/_sgg/mu_1.htm

What then is the real difference between the 'holistically minded teacher/practitioner'

and the 'non holistically-minded teacher/practitioner'?

After thinking about this for the last 14 years my best answer to date is that;

the holistically minded practitioner is trying to do each particular thing, theoretical and practical, with consciousness of connections with, and between, all pertinent contexts - environmental context, social justice context etc. - right up to and including some sense of the Whole.

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